Posted on 01/03/2017 4:36:51 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
The popular right-leaning web portal, The Drudge Report, was briefly knocked offline last week. Incidents like this will only become more common until policymakers or tech companies get serious about fixing connected gadgets, also known as the internet of things (IoT).
In a since deleted post, the site’s verified @DRUDGE account on Twitter posted last week, “Is the US government attacking DRUDGE REPORT? Biggest DDoS since site’s inception. VERY suspicious routing [and timing],” as the International Business Times reported....
Traffic from the Drudge Report is gigantic. ...178 million visits in November and that almost 80 percent of that traffic was direct. ... URL directly into their browser or they have it set as the page their browser opens upon launch.
The importance of Drudge to other publishers cannot be overstated. In addition to its ability to point a firehose of traffic toward other sites, the careful curation of its founder, Matt Drudge, acts as something of a seal of approval for sites seeking the approbation of one of the very few people in American media capable of single-handedly driving the national conversation.
For those who haven’t visited, the site is overwhelmingly devoted to links to other sites. Web analytics platform Parse.ly currently estimates that 0.7 percent of all referral traffic to sites it monitors come from Drudge. That’s three times more than Reddit, just 0.1 percent behind Google News.
What is a DDoS attack? -snip-
Who hit the Drudge Report?-snip-
If we did know more about the nature of the attack, the sophistication of the adversary could indicate something about its identity.... .... That kind of sophistication indicated that it was attributable to something more sophisticated than a cyber gang, perhaps even a nation-state.
Will DDoS attacks get worse?
It looks that way, but not everyone agrees. -snip-
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com ...
I love that they throw in “policy makers” need to decide to fix things.
Umm. Cyber security is an ever evolving technical battlefield. Companies, like drudge, respond to evolving threats because it affects their bottom line.
The last thing any of us need is some cyber security oversight that parallels sarbanes-oxley.
It’s a very long article -1500 words at the source. I lack the knowledge to comment.
Trading seats with Asians?
South Asia would be India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives..
Lmao
Seems more out than in for me at this time. Always loads right up if I use IP address though. 65.97.58.16
Looked at Drudge a few minutes ago, but now it’s down again.
Down for me now too.
From Texas, Verizon, smartphone error message:
www.drudgereport.com server DNS address could not be found.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
Then, after a bit, the site loads, then:
FEDS DUMP MORE ILLEGALS AT BUS STOPS
etc. etc.
From Texas, Verizon, smartphone error message:
www.drudgereport.com server DNS address could not be found.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
Then, after a bit, the site loads, then:
FEDS DUMP MORE ILLEGALS AT BUS STOPS
etc. etc.
That link is to Drudge Retort.
It’s down for me.
She’s quite pretty in the 09 photo, nice hair style and a very nice facial expression.
She transformed to a smug bitch by 2016.
And based on her politics, especially considering she’s moving to a genuine fake news outfit, the 2017 photo is what many will think she looks like.
Thank you very much, I did not bother to read, just hit the tricky link. The mod will remove that post. The site has been down for me as well then.
BTTT
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